Person
Harry Guntrip
British psychotherapist and Congregationalist minister, based in Leeds, who became a leading interpreter of object relations theory and above all of Fairbairn. He wrote on the schizoid personality and the regressed ego, and his account of his analyses with Fairbairn and then Winnicott is among the best-known first-hand records of being analysed.
Read more- Born
- 1901
- Died
- 1975
- Influenced by
analysed by
- Ronald Fairbairn 1949 Guntrip was in analysis with Fairbairn in Edinburgh from 1949 into the late 1950s, and later wrote an account of it.
- Donald Winnicott 1962 After Fairbairn, Guntrip went to Winnicott in London for an intermittent analysis from 1962 to 1968.
influenced by
- Ronald Fairbairn Guntrip became the leading expositor and developer of Fairbairn's object relations theory.